Dinesh Katre was awarded the Emmett Leahy award for Outstanding Contributions and Accomplishments that Have a Major Impact on the Records and Information Management See https://emmettleahyaward.org/

Nov292020
Dinesh Katre was awarded the Emmett Leahy award for Outstanding Contributions and Accomplishments that Have a Major Impact on the Records and Information Management See https://emmettleahyaward.org/
Aug172020
Pre-assessment is a way for you to find out quickly and easily what the weaknesses of your repository are in terms of digital preservation. This is essentially an ISO 16363 Stage 1 audit, to examine your documentation. There is no commitment to proceed any further with a full audit but it should lead to improvements in your ability to preserve your valuable digital holdings no matter whether you carry on to the full audit or not.
The application form is available here.
Dec302018
The US Government Publishing Office Govinfo repository has been awarded global ISO 16363 certification by PTAB. This followed the extensive two stage ISO 16919/17021 audit process which is described in the overview of the audit process.
See the GPO website for more details, the GPO press release, and the PTAB record of the certification here.
Aug172020
The pandemic means that physical visits to repositories, as required by for a Stage 2 ISO audit is not possible at the moment.
ISO has therefore decided that remote audits, via video links, can replace the on-site visits.
This means that complete ISO 16363 audits can still take place.
Nov262019
The digital world is getting more complex and interrelated, and we are all dependent on it.
Those responsible for preserving our digital capital into the future, right now have mostly simple PDFs, audio, video and images. But soon the complex and interrelated objects will be coming their way. Even for something seemingly as simple as a spreadsheet one must know not just the format but also what the columns mean and what their units are. Centigrade or Fahrenheit, meters, millimeters or inches – makes a big difference.
The OAIS Reference Model (ISO 14721) is one of the most important standards for digital preservation, but the average that people scored in a quiz on OAIS which I set up was 66%, which I found surprising.
Take the quiz yourself to test your knowledge of OAIS and the fundamentals of digital preservation, to see if you are ready for the future.
You can improve your knowledge by taking our OAIS course.
If you want to prove your archive is trustworthy then take the course on ISO 16363, then apply for certification. Which would you trust to look after your valuable digital assets, an archive ISO certified by independent auditors, or one which the staff say is OK?
Both courses are live on-line with one of the authors of these standards, like myself, and can be arranged to suit your timetable.
We have been trialing this way of providing the courses, at a reduced price. The cost will increase after 1st Jan 2020 but we will honour the reduced price for any course ordered before that date.
Don’t risk losing your valuable digital data, take action now.
Jun172019
The video of the presentation PTAB Insights into the ISO16363 Audit of GPO is available at https://www.fdlp.gov/ptab-insights-into-the-iso16363-audit-of-gpo as part of the Federal Deposit Library Program.
Jun92019
Because of demand from countries around the world for an online course PTAB would like to announce, in the first instance, online courses for a 4-day High Level Course on ISO 16363 (the outline is here, which also covers OAIS) and a 2-day course solely on OAIS for beginners. Additional courses are also planned for Data Management Planning and Digital Signature preservation (particularly for legal and government legislative documents).
The dates can be flexible to suit the attendees as can the way in which the course is delivered, for example full days or half days, run on consecutive days or spread over over one or more weeks.
There are considerable advantages in doing the online course, particularly for institutions and smaller companies with limited funds for training:
The special introductory schedule of fees for the Online Training Courses:
Jan72018
The National Cultural AudioVisual Archives (NCAA), hosted by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Audio/Visual Repository, is the first repository in the world to be awarded ISO 16363 certification – for details see here.
Oct142017
For its ninth edition, the conference series moves to UKSA at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory part of the Harwell Space Cluster in the UK to continue addressing prospects in the domain of data preservation, stewardship and value adding of scientific data and research related information.
For more information see http://www.ceda.ac.uk/contact/pv2018/
For information about previous PV conferences see http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/index.php/community/conferences/pv-conferences/
Sep162017
The Emmett Leahy Award annually honors a pioneer in the field of records and information management. The 2017 award recognizes Dr. Richard Marciano’s outstanding and sustained work in digital records and information management. His insightful development of cyberinfrastructure to support records management has resulted in new methodologies, experimental systems, and analytics – producing new knowledge and new ways to understand the past. Dr. Marciano’s work has led to innovative advancements in record keeping for the humanities, sciences, and archives.
For more details see https://ischool.umd.edu/news/dr-richard-marciano-receives-emmett-leahy-award